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50th Episode of Lamplighters Podcast Published: The Outpost In Oklahoma

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 50 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

December 9, 2024

Books

Book Notes

Letters for Life Guidance for Emotional Wellness From the Lubavitcher Rebbe Levi Y. Shmotkin Ezra Press As a teenager, Levi Shmotkin lost his oomph for…

By Staff Writer

December 8, 2024

Art

Art as Avodah: A Visual Conversation with Tobi Kahn

Tobi Kahn’s art lives in two worlds. His paintings of expansive oceanic horizons, akin to the color field works of Mark Rothko, hang in the…

By Staff Writer

December 8, 2024

Rebbe

An Interview with the Rebbe’s Doctor – Dr. Ira Weiss

Dr. Ira Weiss, Senior Attending Cardiologist at Evanston Hospital in Evanston, IL, was called in to attend to the Lubavitcher Rebbe after he suffered a…

By Baila Olidort

December 2, 2024

New Centers

Chabad Welcomed in Mountain Principality of Andorra

Amid Warming Relations, Jewish Community Welcomes its First Rabbi

By Tzemach Feller

December 1, 2024

Kinus

LIVE: Watch The Kinus

By Staff Writer

December 1, 2024

Thousands of Shluchim Gather for Annual Convention, Days After Colleague was Murdered

Rabbi Bentzion Butman was on a long, long flight. He was on his way from Phnom Penh, Cambodia to New York City, where this week…

By Tzemach Feller

November 28, 2024

Statement

Emissary Murdered In Cold Blood

Chabad calls on world leadership to take action

By Chabad Lubavitch HQ

November 24, 2024

STATEMENT BY CHABAD-LUBAVITCH WORLD HEADQUARTERS

We are deeply concerned about Rabbi Zvi Kogan, a Chabad-Lubavitch emissary who went missing in the Emirati city of Dubai on Thursday. Our emissaries are…

By Rabbi Yehuda Krinsky

November 23, 2024

Campus

Lubbock, Texas Welcomes Chabad Presence

It was a Friday afternoon, and the hot, northwest Texas sun was beating down on students as they walked to and from classes along the…

By Tzemach Feller

November 21, 2024

History

Birthday of the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson in 1860 (5621)

20 Cheshvan: Birthday of the fifth Chabad Rebbe, Rabbi Sholom DovBer Schneerson in 1860 (5621).

By Staff Writer

November 20, 2024

Israel

What Israel Means To Them Now: Shehekhiyonu

Following the events of October 7, I reached back to a poem I committed to memory when I first read it—a poem written when we…

By Ruth Wisse

November 18, 2024

Campus

Thousands of Jewish College Students Meet Up at International Shabbaton

After the year Jewish students have had, Rabbi Ariel Stern knew he had to do something special for them. Rabbi Stern and his wife Mushky…

By Tzemach Feller

November 14, 2024

Art

Exodus of an Artist

Ukrainian-born painter Michael Gleizer’s journey from the Soviet Union to America tells a new story about art, freedom, and faith

By Richard McBee

November 14, 2024

Israel

What Israel Means To Them Now: The Gift

In the days following October 7, when the scope and horror of the Shemini Atzeret massacre became clear, I felt my mother’s experiences during the…

By Rabbi Shlomo Yaffe

November 11, 2024

Military

The Story of Private First Class Ray J. Kaufmann

As war raged in 1943, Ray J. Kaufmann knew what he had to do, and he wouldn’t let a little thing like his age get…

By Tzemach Feller

November 11, 2024

AntiSemitism

Hundreds turn to Chabad for Rescue in Amsterdam

On Thursday afternoon, as thousands of Israeli soccer fans gathered in Amsterdam, the Netherlands, to watch Maccabi Tel Aviv take on Ajax in a much-anticipated…

By Tzemach Feller

November 8, 2024

Art

The Heirs of Asher Lev

Young religious artists forge new paths in an unknown land

By Sarah Rindner

November 7, 2024

Features

Above The Fray

Judaism is neither liberal, nor progressive, nor conservative. It is Judaism. It precedes all of these categories, cuts through them, and floats above them. The…

By Boruch Werdiger

November 4, 2024

Podcast

Ep. 49: From Karlin to Wellesley

Chabad-Lubavitch Headquarters presents Episode 49 of its podcast series about the personal struggles and achievements of Chabad representatives

By Staff Writer

November 2, 2024

New Centers

Building Jewish Pride on the North Shore

Every few weeks, as the sun dips below the horizon on Friday night, casting a glow over the historic streets of Salem, Massachusetts, you might…

By Leibel Kahan

October 28, 2024

Books

Once Again, from the Beginning

How does an ancient book find its way to our soul in a world overloaded with information? Hypertexted and AI-driven, the Internet provides an avalanche…

By Shmuel Klatzkin

October 27, 2024